{"id":29155,"date":"2017-04-27T08:43:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T08:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=29155"},"modified":"2017-04-27T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T08:43:19","slug":"13-reasons-kate-walsh-shooting-hannahs-suicide-scene-possible-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=29155","title":{"rendered":"\u201813 Reasons Why\u2019: Kate Walsh on Shooting Hannah\u2019s Suicide Scene and a Possible Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

As pretty much anyone with Internet access knows, Netflix\u2019s 13 Reasons Why<\/em> is a headline-making hit. Since its premiere on March 31, the adaptation of Jay Asher\u2019s 2007 novel has spawned memorable memes and earned rave reviews for \u201ccareer-making performances\u201d by young stars Katherine Langford and Dylan Minette. And in perhaps the highest honor of the digital age, Twitter recently announced that 13 Reasons Why<\/em> is 2017\u2019s most tweeted-about show.<\/p>\n

But the drama \u2014 which follows Hannah Baker (Langford), a teenage girl who decides to kill herself after a sexual assault and relentless bullying \u2014 has also been the target of critics who say the show\u2019s depiction of suicide is too graphic. Damn right it is, says 13 Reasons Why<\/em> star Kate Walsh, who gives a heart-wrenching performance as Hannah\u2019s mother, Olivia. Speaking at a screening hosted by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation in New York City, Walsh defended the brutality of Hannah\u2019s death. \u201cI feel really strongly, and [creator] Brian [Yorkey] felt very, very strongly that this should be a very graphic, ugly, ugly thing, so that there\u2019s nothing left to the imagination,\u201d she told the audience. \u201cPeople still can romanticize [suicide] and make it Ophelia floating in a pond with f***ing flowers and listening to Morrissey, and they go out quietly, dreamily, sleepily, peacefully \u2014 and it\u2019s not. It\u2019s painful, and it\u2019s hideous, and [Brian] was very clear about wanting to make sure that it was not romantic at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walsh also described what it was like to shoot the moment Olivia and her husband, Andy (Brian d\u2019Arcy James), find their daughter dead in the tub \u2014 a scene that will break your heart, unless it\u2019s made of stone. \u201cAt the table read, Brian and I were like, \u2018Don\u2019t even put pressure on yourself, let\u2019s just read it. It\u2019s just a table read.\u2019 Meanwhile, that scene comes, and we\u2019re sobbing<\/em>,\u201d she recalled. \u201cThen when we went to go shoot it, it was totally different. We blocked [the scene] out, and I didn\u2019t talk to Katherine at all [during blocking]. We were all super, super quiet, and we just walked through what the actions were going to be, with Kyle Hernandez, who brilliantly directed the episode.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch Kate Walsh\u2019s full SAG-AFTRA Q&A here. She talks about getting her big break on <\/em>The Drew Carey Show (starts at 8:36), as well as why she doesn\u2019t think Addison Montgomery will ever return to <\/em>Grey\u2019s Anatomy (starts at 16:58):<\/em><\/p>\n